Meng Jiao (75 1-8 14), a native of Wukang, Huzhou, was a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty.
Meng Jiao's poems. Because most of his poems describe the cold world and the sufferings of the people, he is known as the "poet's prison" and is also known as the "thin suburban island" with Jia Dao. There are more than 500 poems by Meng, among which short stories and five ancient poems are the most. Today's biography of Meng Dongye's poems is 10.
Poetry theme
From the content point of view, Meng Jiao's poems are beyond the narrow range of themes in Dali and Zhenyuan periods. Of course, the main theme of his poems is the resentment of the middle and lower literati against poverty and hardship, which is determined by his repeated trials and tribulations, hard career and the loss of children in middle age. But he can still see some broader social life through his personal destiny and reflect these lives with poetry.
Some of them expose and criticize the ugly phenomena in social interpersonal relationships, while others sharply reveal the inequality between the rich and the poor. For example, The Poem of the Weaver Girl describes the abnormal phenomenon of the Weaver Girl's "how to weave a quilt and wear a blue silk dress" by comparing it with "the frost blows through the wall and the pain can't escape".
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Meng Jiao